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Monday, January 03, 2005

Blogging and journalism

And here is Steve Outing's other article, What bloggers can learn from journalists, matching the one I blogged earlier. Exellent advice - if you want to write like a journalist. If your plan for your blog is to work as and write as (and essentially become) a journalist but independently and through your own blog, then you should definitely learn the craft.

If you want to do something else: create a story, share your emotions, create a resource for links on a topic, share pictures and stories from your journeys, then by all means, do it your own way!

Just remember one thing though: This is online, it's public, if you get over-emotional and attack in a way that can be understood as slander, take Outing's advice and ask somebody before you post. Check if you say something you can be sued for. Even Norway, with the liberal practice of publishing, has laws on slander, and you may end up paying far more than you can afford.

So play nice, even if you don't need to play by the rules of the journalists unless you want to be one.

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About Me

This is the journal of Torill Elvira Mortensen. I am an associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. The topics of my writings here are among other things media studies, reader-response theory, role-play games, Internet Culture, travel, academic weirdness and online communication - put together at random.
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Personal Publication and Public Attention, Torill Elvira Mortensen (2004): "Personal Publication and Public attention", in Gurak, Laura, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff and Jessica Reyman (ed): Into the Blogosphere; Rhetoric, Community and Culture of Weblogs, at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/, University of Minnesota.

Pleasures of the Player (pdf), Torill Elvira Mortensen (2003): Pleasures of the Player; Flow and control in online games, Doctoral Dissertation Volda College and University of Bergen.

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The Gamers' Space is a small project I am doing in the spring 2009. It includes an electronic survey, pictures of game machines of different kinds, and interviews done at The Gathering, a large LAN party in Hamar, Norway. For participation, more information, links and addresses, check The Gamers' Space.